THE HUNS AT REIMS.
Pierre Lofci on the Reims Cathedral: "What an incomparable jewel it was, this church of Reims — more beautiful even than Notre Dame of Pa'is, airier and more lace-like, more soaring with its columns as slender as reeds, so slender and frail that it is amazing how they could hold firm: a marvel of our French religious art, a masterpiece conceived and created in its mystical purity by lie faith of our ancestors before there had come to us from Italy to materialise and spoil everything that load of heavy sensual conceptions which history has agreed to label the Renaissance _ "Oh, to think of the gross and dastardly and brainless brutality of hurling those canisters of scrap-iron in volleys against the fretwork, delicate as lace, which for centuries had reared itself proudly and confidently in air, and which so many battles, invasions, and whirlwinds had never dared to touch I"
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Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 86, 9 October 1915, Page 12
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